Verb:

जैसे-तैसे बिताना, विलंबित करना, विलंब करना, देर तक ठहरना, ठहराना,

linger's Usage Examples:

Italian metal-workers are mainly employed in reproduction; but traditions linger in some remote parts, while the sporadic appearance of craftsmen of a high order is evidence that the ancient artistic spirit is not wholly extinct.

It also possesses important shrines of its own which cause many pilgrims to linger there, and wealthy Indians not infrequently choose Bagdad as a suitable spot in which to end their days in the odour of sanctity.

Here he imbibed in his earlier years a good measure of the hardy simplicity and strong seriousness which the later Romans attributed to the men of the early republic - characteristics which were supposed to linger in the Sabine land after they had fled from the rest of Italy.

Even in the 17th century the Romonsch language was not extinguished in the state, and many Romonsch place-names still linger, e.g.

Their earliest halting place was probably the Malay Archipelago, where a few of their kin linger in the Mentawi Islands on the west coast of Sumatra.

But he was allowed to linger in his prison until 1595 when he died, the sight of his wife and children being cruelly refused to the dying man.

Many pagan beliefs linger on in the country, where vampires, witches and the evil eye are dreaded by all.

He wanted to linger there, feeling her warmth, but she quickly pulled away.

Granted, Howie's mother might linger for weeks but she's still his only flesh and blood.

We cannot linger over the details of this plan.

Synonyms:

persist, stay, remain,

Antonyms:

appear, enter, pull in, show,